Apache Solr 7 Ready for Download

While we lived it up in Vegas at Lucene/Solr Revolution 2017, the Lucene PMC announced the release of Apache Solr 7.0.0. Download.

Here’s a webinar walking though what’s new in Solr 7.

From the release announcement:

Highlights for this Solr release include:

• Replica Types – Solr 7 supports different replica types, which handle updates differently. In addition to pure NRT operation where all replicas build an index and keep a replication log, you can now also add so called PULL replicas, achieving the read-speed optimized benefits of a master/slave setup while at the same time keeping index redundancy.
• Auto-scaling. Solr can now allocate new replicas to nodes using a new auto scaling policy framework. This framework will in future releases enable Solr to move shards around based on load, disk etc.
• Indented JSON is now the default response format for all APIs, pass wt=xml and/or indent=off to use the previous unindented XML format.
• The JSON Facet API now supports two-phase facet refinement to ensure accurate counts and statistics for facet buckets returned in distributed mode.
• Streaming Expressions adds a new statistical programming syntax for the statistical analysis of sql queries, random samples, time series and graph result sets.
• Analytics Component version 2.0, which now supports distributed collections, expressions over multivalued fields, a new JSON request language, and more.
• The new v2 API, exposed at /api/ and also supported via SolrJ, is now the preferred API, but /solr/ continues to work.
• A new ‘_default’ configset is used if no config is specified at collection creation. The data-driven functionality of this configset indexes strings as analyzed text while at the same time copying to a ‘*_str’ field suitable for faceting.
• Solr 7 is tested with and verified to support Java 9.

Full release notes.